Plain Blue screen - Kali Linux

When user login to the kali machine, the screen may look plain blue color without any application icon due to the Gnome corruption. To recover gnome with all previously installed packages restart the machine.

Select advanced options for kali GNU /Linux

Then select *Kali GNU/Linux, with Linux 4.15.0-Kali2-amd64 (recovery mode)

When the terminal finish, loading the contents, type root password to log in.

To recover the Gnome, Type below command in the root user terminal,
sudo dpkg --configure -a

Finally, you can get your previous Kali Linux as it was.

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